Thursday, May 31, 2018

CppCon Workshop on Giving Good Technical Presentations

On Sunday, September 23 (the day before the official beginning of CppCon), Andrei Alexandrescu and Kate Gregory and I will be leading a workshop on how to give good technical presentations. Between the three of us, we've made hundreds (thousands?) of presentations on countless topics to pretty much every kind of audience. We certainly don't know everything that works (or doesn't), but we know some things, and we're eager to share what we've learned.

The workshop is really three workshops in one. Most of the day will be spent in breakout sessions, with Kate, Andrei and me each running a session in our own way. Each workshop participant will spend one breakout with each of us. The details will vary, but each session will feature a short presentation by each workshop participant, so if you're part of the workshop, by the end of the day, you'll have received personalized suggestions from each of us on what you did well and what we think would help you do better.

This is an interactive workshop, so attendance is limited. Half the slots have been set aside for the conference to offer to first-time CppCon speakers. The other half are open to anyone who wants to improve their technical presentation skills. If that includes you, I encourage you to sign up for the workshop.